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COMBINED CLOTHES NB REEL, EIN HOLDER, 55o.

Patented Feb.r I, 1887.

2.. my if INI/ENTOR I WITJVESSES new lllni'ren hierros .einer @orion JETHRO llIQSHER, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

COMBINED CLOTHES-LINE REEL, PIN-HOLDER,

SECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,779, dated February 3., 1887. A ppiicntion filed A pril 1,18%. Serial No. 107,439. (Modell To all whom if: may concern.' y

Be it known that I, JBTHRO MosHER, a. citizen of the United States, residing et New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Im proveniente in n Combined Clothes- Line Reel, Pin-Holder, Sie., of which the fol lowing is a specification, reference being had therein to the neconipunying drawings, in Whioli-n Figure l represents a perspective View of my apparatus, and Fig. 2 e. beck elevation of the sei-nie slightly inodiiied.

This improvement is designed to he used for the cure and preservation of the clothes line und pins and to forni e convenient device to be used in hanging clothes after they are washed, and in taking them in oder they ure dried; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction, arrangement, and combination oi' ports hereinafter described, and then pointed out in the claim.

.Referring now to the details of the drewings, which show the preferable furnis of my improvement, A represents u boi; provided with a hinged cover, B, unddesigned, prima.- rily, ns e receptacle for clothes-pins C. This box is mounted upon standards D, which are euch preferably mede of two pieces of suitable Wood, d d, halvedH into euch other et the points of intersect-ion, und the twostanderds are connected by crossbnrs E, whereby they ere strongly braced.

Between the standards und underneath the box is o clothes-line reel, F, which may run in hearings formed in of-shaped blocks G, (shown in dotted lines) fixedlysecnred to the standards in Fig. l; or o reel of suitable length may he mounted in e movable oarrier, H, (shown in Fig. 2,) which carrier is formed of tufo uprights, le h, haring bearings h for the exis j' of the clothes-line reel, and a. crossbur, h, which will serve es u handle by which it may he carried.

1When the carrier H is used u support for the reel Within the standards, I provide hooks l, fastened to the legs or otherwise, upon which seid carrier may be hung, es shown in full lines in Fig. 2.

The earrienuhen not in use, as above stated,

may he hung :it the hack of the box, or it muy be' used to carry the reel from place to piece.

A carrier muy be used to carry the detachable reel shown in Fig. l from point to point, and when not in use for this purpose may be hung upon the buck ofthe loon, as partially shown in 1, upon hooks O. (Shown in Fig. 2.)

At J is shown a support or stand for the clothes-basket, which stand is hinged to e block, j, fastened to the side of one of the standards, although it muy he hinged direct to the standards, if preferred. To the under side of this stand are hinged two legs, K, which are connected together by e. cross-bor, gto brace and stiften the same. These legs are shown in full lines es resting on the ground; but they muy he set diagonally (as shown in dotted lines) so es to rest on blocks nailed or otherwise secured to the outer side of one of the standards D, und thus forni braces instead of legs, which will be found more convenient when moving the article from place to place.

'When the stand is no@ in use, it may be folded up against the side of the box, as shown in Fig. 2, und he fastened in that position by means of the hook L und eye Eli. At each end of the box is u, handle, BT, by which the device may he conveniently carried from place to place.

The operation is :is follows: '.llieline being upon the reel'snd the pins in the box and the reel placed either in the hearings formed in the blocks G, ns in Fig. l, or in the carrier H, as shown in Fig. 2, the irst operation is to plone the apparatus in a suitable position in the yard or drying-ground und then, taking the free end of the line in the handd is drawn off the reel as wanted und fastened to the posts or other inea-ns for supporting the line; or the reel may be carried from place to place in the carrier detached from the box, it' preferred, until the line is unwound and secured in position. The apparatus is then placed in o convenient position for the next operation, (which is the hanging of the clothes) und then by dropping down the stand, as shown in Fie. l, it forms e convenient stond and on ample IOO support for the clothes-basket, which should be placed thereon. It is then at a convenient height for handling the clothes, and the cover of the clothes-pin box being thrown back, as shown, both the clothes and pins can be readily reached Without stooping, and thus the labor of hanging out clothes is very much lightened. When the clothes are dry,they are taken down and thrown into the basket and the pins into the box. After the clothes are taken down the line may be taken off the hooks or posts and dropped upon the ground, and then, by attaching one end of it to a pin or pins on one end of the reel, the operator may readily Wind' up the line by taking hold with one hand of the nearest point of one of the ends of the reel and causing the same to revolve while the rope is guided by the other hand.

If the yard is dirty or wet, and it is desired to prevent the line from coming in contact with the ground, the carrier II may be used for carrying the reel While the line is being Wound on or unwound from the reel. In this case the operator in Winding up the line unhooks the end of the line from its supporting hook or post and attaches it to the pin on the end of the reel and then Winds up the line by turning the reel with one hand While the frame is held by the other, 'and moving from post to post as the line is wound up, thus keeping the line entirely from contact with the grounda very great convenience in dirty weather. The line may be hung up in the saine Way by simply attaching one end of the line to the iirst hook, then going to the next hook, which will draw o' the necessary amount of line, and, after hanging the line in position on the second hook, carrying the reel to the next hook, and so on until the line is all in place.

After the line is Wound or unwound, as the case may be, the reel and carrier are hung `in their appropriate places, as shown, and when the basket has been removed the stand is folded up and hooked in place. In this condition the apparatus is very compact and occupies but very little more room than an ordinary kitchen-chair, :and can be placed in the kitchen, Where it can be used as a small table or as a support for one end of the ordinary ironingboard.

I deem it important that the box A beindependent of the reel and above the same, as by this arrangement the box is brought to a convenient height to enable the operator to easily reach the pins therein Without stooping, and there is no danger of the pins and line becoming entangled, as would be the case were the reel arranged within the pin-box, as has been proposed. Ialso deem it important that the legs K K be hinged `to the stand J, near 6o the outer end thereof, whereby, when said stand is extended, as shown in Fig. l, the legs form a stiff support for said stand.

W'hat I claim as neu7 is- As a new article of manufacture, a laundry apparatus consisting of standards D D, the box A,xedly attached to the top of said standards and provided with a cover adapted to serve as a table, the reel F, and bearings for the support of the same set between the stand- 7o ards, the stand J, hinged to said standards,and the leg K, hinged to said stand near its outer end, all constructed substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence Iof two Witnesses, this 31st day of 75 March, 1886. 'v

JETHRO MOSHER. Witnesses:

WM. OLAND BoURNn, GEORGE F. WILSON. 

